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Species of beetle
Micraspis discolor is a species of
ladybird .
[1] It was described by
Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798.
[2] It is widespread throughout Asia, North America and parts of Oceania.
It is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam, United States, Hawaii and Tonga.
[3]
Body length is 5 to 6 mm. Adult has a reddish orange body which is oval in shape. There are black stripes on elytra.
[4]
It is one of the most common lady beetle found in rice ecosystems particularly during flowering and feeds on pollen.
[5]
[6] The species can be used as a bio-control agent for
brown planthopper . It is found as both entomophagous and phytophagous species of beetle.
[7]
Both adult beetles and nymphs are voracious predators on several pests such as,
Aphis craccivora ,
Aphis gossypii ,
Aphis spiraecola ,
Leptocorisa acuta ,
Myzus persicae ,
Nephotettix cincticeps ,
Opisina arenosella ,
Pentalonia nigronervosa and
Sogatella furcifera .
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"Micraspis discolor (Fabricius, 1798)" . www.gbif.org . Retrieved 2021-09-08 .
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"Micraspis discolor (Fabricius, 1798)" .
Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 7 September 2013 .
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"Micraspis discolor" . www.cabi.org . Retrieved 2021-09-08 .
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^ Poorani, J. (January 2002).
"An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian Subregion" . Oriental Insects . 36 : 307–383.
doi :
10.1080/00305316.2002.10417335 .
S2CID
86769172 . Retrieved 2021-09-08 .
^ Poorani, J. (2014-12-11).
"An unusual new species of Micraspis Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from northeastern India" . Biodiversity Data Journal . 2 (2): e4112.
doi :
10.3897/BDJ.2.e4112 .
PMC
4238069 .
PMID
25425937 . Retrieved 2021-09-08 .
^ Shanker, C.; Mohan, M.; Sampathkumar, M.; Lydia, Ch; Katti, G. (2013).
"Functional significance of Micraspis discolor (F.) (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) in rice ecosystem" . Journal of Applied Entomology . 137 (8): 601–609.
doi :
10.1111/jen.12035 .
S2CID
84532073 . Retrieved 2021-09-08 .
^ Rattanapun, W. (2012).
"Biology and potentiality in biological control of Micraspis discolor (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)" . Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences . 77 (4): 541–548.
PMID
23885421 . Retrieved 2021-09-08 .
^ Omkar; Pervez, Ahmad (March 2002).
"Influence of Temperature on Age-Specific Fecundity of the Ladybeetle Micraspis discolor (Fabricius)" . International Journal of Tropical Insect Science . 22 : 61–65.
doi :
10.1017/S174275840001506X .
hdl :
1807/146 .
S2CID
84799558 . Retrieved 2021-09-08 .
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"Bean aphid predation efficiency of lady bird beetle Micraspis discolor F.(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)" .
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.1072.7399 .
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